Not For Squares

It’s my birth­day today, and yes, I’m an April Fool!

I’ve been sal­iv­at­ing over the Ginkgo print from Daniel Baer since I first saw it, flick­ing through the graphic design magazine Grafik. This morn­ing I unwrapped my gift from Coulson, and Ta Da!

A gor­geous A3 poster of ginkgo leaves by the super-talented Daniel Baer.

Very excited over our new pur­chase and thought I’d share it with you.  We were rum­ma­ging in a junk shop yes­ter­day and came across this vin­tage bottle crate…

This bottle crate is from Arnold, Per­rett & Co. Ltd, a brew­ery in Gloucester­shire that was foun­ded in 1820. Arnold, Per­rett & Co. ceased brew­ing in 1924. The site is now used by Wick­war Brew­ery.

Not sure how old this crate is, but it doesn’t date to any earlier than 1887 (that’s when the com­pany changed its name to the ver­sion on the crate).

The best thing about our new crate is that the super­mar­ket plastic herb pots fit exactly into the bottle slots. I’m off to buy 11 more tubs of mint for a fant­astic win­dow planter.

Breath­tak­ingly lovely wed­ding photography…

by Melbourne-based pho­to­grapher Jonathan Ong. Found via Eat Drink Chic (Amy has just booked him for her upcom­ing engage­ment party).

Just been read­ing this month’s Cre­at­ive Review and saw a piece on illus­trator Chris­toph Niemann’s new book ‘I Lego N.Y.’ which made me chuckle.

Niemann used his son’s Lego bricks to illus­trate his memor­ies of New York (he now lives in Berlin).

Would make a pretty cool present for any­one who has ever vis­ited the Big Apple.

Just sit­ting here flick­ing and swoon­ing through our new purchase,

simple home is by Mark and Sally Bailey of the utterly lovely store Baileys Home and Garden.

The blurb on the back says, “One of the most inspir­ing interi­ors books we have seen in ages, giv­ing a room-by-room tour of spaces that embrace the Baileys’ love of the well-worn, the dis­tressed, the aban­doned and the recycled” Tele­graph Magazine.  And I agree whole-heartedly.

We men­tioned awhile back that a friend of Coulson Macleod had been nom­in­ated in the 2010 Blog­gies.

We can proudly announce that 3limes has won! 3limes won in the Best Latin Amer­ican category.

Well done Sam­antha, you deserve it as your blog makes for a bril­liant read. Next year fin­gers crossed she’ll win the Best African Web­log as Sam­antha now lives in Uganda (she used to live in Trin­idad). If you have a spare five minutes do read her blog, a fas­cin­at­ing insight into liv­ing in the more exotic parts of the world.

I get very excited when I meet other cre­at­ive folk and par­tic­u­larly when they’re local to Coulson Macleod. If we lived in Lon­don we’d expect to meet like-minded design­ers all the time. But we’re not in Lon­don. So I have the pleas­ure of intro­du­cing a brand new busi­ness, Smiles Design, owned by Stephanie Miles, a freel­ance tex­tile designer. Stephanie makes the quir­ki­est neck­laces I’ve seen for awhile and I can see them being big news.

I’m abso­lutely lov­ing this bird­cage neck­lace (£20)…

I also love love love her cards (£5.95), which remind me of Rob Ryan…

Stephanie’s busi­ness is so new that she doesn’t even have a web­site yet, but if you’d like to place an order then you can con­tact her at smiles.uk7 @ mac​.com

Just found the most gor­geous place to stay (via Lake Jane) in Mar­rakech. Riad Dixneuf la ksour. My oh my it looks heav­enly. Mar­rakech is a place I fell in in love with many years ago. Intox­ic­at­ing. The smell. The heat. The sounds. The souk. The tagines. OK I think you get the picture!

Just stumbled across the works of Finnish artist Car­oline Slotte (via Lost) and instantly fell in love with her work. Car­oline reworks found objects, mainly second hand ceramics.

Coulson Macleod lim­ited edi­tion typo­graphic art

The ulti­mate romantic gift. Writ­ten by Coulson for Macleod when he fell in love with her.

If any of you received a Coulson Macleod Love print for Valentine’s Day, do let us know. x